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ADONIJAH STRONG
WELCH |
1868-1883 |
Born
in 1821, the son of a Connecticut farmer.
He graduated from the University of Michigan, studied law,
was a gold prospector in California and the first principal of the
Normal School that became Eastern Michigan University.
He went to Florida for his health and became a lumberman and
orange-grower. He was
serving as Reconstruction Senator when he accepted the appointment
as first President. Welch was removed from office in 1883 under pressure from
narrow gauge interest groups dissatisfied with the College's
development. He
continued on the staff until his death in 1889.
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SEAMAN ASAHEL
KNAPP |
1883-1884 |
Born
in 1833, the youngest of nine children.
His father was a New York doctor.
After graduating from Union College, Knapp and his wife
taught school. He was
head of a women's college for a time, but failing health resulting
from an accident brought him to Iowa in 1866. He was pastor of a
Methodist church, Head of the Iowa College for the blind and editor
of an agricultural paper. From 1879 to 1885, he served as the first Head of the
Agriculture program at Iowa State and drafted the Experiment Station
Bill. He moved to
Louisiana in 1885.
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LEIGH SMITH JOHN
HUNT |
1885-1886 |
Born in Indiana in 1855.
His undergraduate education was obtained through Middlebury
College (Vermont) Correspondence Course.
He studied law independently and passed the bar in Indiana.
He taught in public schools in Indiana and was Superintendent
in Mt. Pleasant and East Des Moines.
Appointed President at age twenty-nine, his lack of formal
training and his dictatorial methods led to clashes with the faculty
and students and his resignation after eighteen months in office.
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WILLIAM ISAAC
CHAMBERLAIN |
1886-1890 |
Born
in 1837 in Connecticut, his family moved to Ohio the following year.
In 1855, he entered Western Reserve and for ten years after
his graduation, he taught there. Because of failing health, he returned to the family farm.
In 1880, he was elected Secretary of the Ohio State Board of
Agriculture. He
developed farmer's institutes prior to his appointment as President.
His narrow-minded and unliberal attitudes resulted in a
troubled administration. The
"Cyanogen Affair" of 1888 and subsequent
fraternity/non-fraternity clashes resulted in his resignation.
Born in Ohio in 1850, he joined the Union Army at the age of 14 and
served throughout the Civil War.
He studied for the ministry at Otterbein College and Yale
Divinity School. He filled several pastorates before coming to Iowa
in 1881 as the President of Western College in Toledo.
In 1889, he was appointed Superintendent of Schools in West
Des Moines. He died in 1902 of complications following a heart
attack.
Born
in 1860 in Michigan. A
graduate of the University of Michigan, he entered the Methodist
ministry in 1884 and held pastorates in Detroit and Madison, WI
before coming to Des Moines in 1900.
His opposition to the newly creates State Board of Education
led to his resignation. He
became a pastor in Indianapolis and then president of
Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio until his death in 1933.
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RAYMOND ALLEN PEARSON
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1912-1926 |
Born
in 1873, the son of an Indiana railroad executive. He graduated from Cornell University and did government and
commercial dairy laboratory work before returning to Cornell in 1903
to organize the Department of Dairy Industry.
In 1908, he was appointed head of the New York Department of
Agriculture. Friction
over the organization and function of the College led to his
resignation.
Born
in Atlantic, Iowa in 1873, making him the first native Iowan to
serve a President, although he grew up and was educated in Ohio.
After graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, he taught high school and later joined the faculty of
his alma mater-- Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. He was serving as President of that institution when he
accepted the position of President of Iowa State.
He resigned on February 29, 1936 because of ill health.
He remained on campus to teach, write and do research until
1956 when he moved to Illinois.
He died there the following year.
Charles
E. Friley served as Acting President October 1935 - March 17, 1936,
due to Hughes' failing health.
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CHARLES EDWIN FRILEY
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1936-1953 |
Born
in Louisiana in 1887, educated in Texas and at Columbia University
and the University of Chicago.
He returned to his alma mater, Texas A&M University and
served as the Registrar until 1924, when he became Dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences. He
came to Iowa State in 1924 as Dean of Industrial Sciences (now the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).
He was appointed Vice-President in 1935 and served as Acting
President from October 1935 until his appointment as President.
Mandatory retirement forced him to step down in 1953.
He taught, did research and served in an advisory capacity to
his successor until his death on July 11, 1958.
Born
in North Carolina in 1889. He
graduated from Iowa State in 1923, making him the first alumnus to
serve as President. After
graduation, he became and instructor in Animal Husbandry (now Animal
Science) and a few months later became the County Agent for Greene
County, a position held for three years.
He then joined the Extension Service at Purdue and from
1927-36 was and assistant professor in Dairy Husbandry there.
He received an Masters of Science from the University of
Wisconsin in 1937. Two years later, he was appointed Professor in Charge of
Dairy Production teaching and research at Purdue.
In 1945, he received a Doctor of Science degree from Purdue
and went to North Carolina State College as Head of the Animal
Husbandry Department. He
became Dean of the School of Agriculture in 1948, a position he held
until his appointment as President of Iowa State in 1953.
After relinquishing his duties as President twelve years
later, he was appointed Head of the newly-created Office of
University Development. He
retired in 1970 and died in Ames on January 14, 1982.
Born
in Tennessee in 1915. He
received his B.A. from Berea College, M.A. from the University of
Kentucky and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
From 1940 to 1948, with the exception of thirty months in the
Navy, he served in a research and administrative capacity with the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
He was Professor of Government at Iowa State from 1948 -
1956. The following two
years he served as Professor of Agricultural Economics at the
University of Wisconsin. He
returned to Iowa State in 1958 as Dean of Instruction.
He was appointed the Vice-President for Academic Affairs in
1961 and served in that capacity until taking office as President in
1965. Dr. Parks retired from office in 1986. He continues to live in Ames.
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GORDON PRYOR EATON
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1986-1990 |
Born
in Ohio in 1929. He
received his B.A. in Geology and Mathematics from Wesleyan
University , M.S. in Geology and Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics
from the California Institute of Technology.
He then served on the faculties of Wesleyan University
(1955-59) and the University of California at Riverside (1959 -67).
From 1963-65, while on academic leave, he served as project
chief for the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, CO.
Upon his return to UC-Riverside, he served as Chair of the
Department of Geoscience (1965-67).
From 1967-81, Dr. Eaton worked for the U.S. Geological Survey
in several administrative and scientific positions.
He returned to higher education in 1981 as the Dean of
Geoscience at Texas A&M University. In 1983, he became the Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs at Texas A&M, a position he held until his
appointment as President of Iowa State in 1986.
Dr. Eaton resigned from the office of President in 1990 to
become director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological
Observatory.
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MARTIN JISCHKE
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1991-2000 |
Born in Illinois in 1941.
Dr. Jischke attended the Illinois Institute of Technology
where he received a B.S. in Physics. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics.
In 1968, he accepted a position
as professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Oklahoma. He
became Director of Aeronautical, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
at OU in 1977 and Dean of the College of Engineering in 1981.
In 1986, he was named Chancellor at the University of
Missouri-Rolla, a position he held until accepting the position of
President of Iowa State in 1991.
In 2000 he was named the President of Purdue University in
West LaFayette, Indiana and began his duties there on August
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GREGORY L.
GEOFFREY |
2001- |
Gregory L. Geoffroy received a B.S.
(1968) in Chemistry from the University of Louisville, Kentucky;
and a Ph.D (1974) in Chemistry from the California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California.
Prior to being named Iowa State's fourteenth President, Dr.
Geoffroy served as the Dean of the Eberley College of Science,
and professor and chair of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State
University (1974-1989), and was Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Provost (1997-2001) at the University of
Maryland. He also served as Interim President (1998).
Dr. Geoffroy has an extensive
publication record in chemistry journals and is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Association of Universities for
Research in Astronomy. He was named a Fellow, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1991.
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